New Strategies in the Training of Human Resource Managers

Abstract

In discussing the role of academic institutions in the development of managerial talent Mintzberg (1975) claims that management schools have been successful in producing organisational specialists such as ac countants and marketing researchers, but for the most part have failed to train managers. Wills (1983), taking this further contends that many management schools are too concerned with input standards such as quali fications and output standards tested by examinations. He feels that many business courses now being established within the academic structure have regressed to academic norms. These academic norms would appear to be more concerned with the maintenance and extension of knowledge than with the preparation for entry to the profession of management.